More and more people in our nation today think that sex (that is, maleness and femaleness) is not an objective biological reality but rather a social construct. Accordingly, instead of "sex" they prefer to use the word "gender"—a word that, until late last century, referred exclusively to language (most languages apart from English assign male, female, or neuter genders to nouns). Unlike sex, gender can be manipulated to serve cultural preferences.

Apologists argue. By that I do not mean that they yell or gesticulate wildly or call people names. That is not arguing; that is harassment. Arguing, in its proper sense, is providing "a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea...

"Build schoolhouses then for the religious education of your children as the best protest against a system of education from which religion has been excluded by law."

~ Bernard J. McQuaid, Bishop of the Diocese of Rochester; in firm command to his flock, after the failure of the State to remedy the injustice to Catholic parents who were forced to pay education taxes to support public schools detrimental to their faith.